Marking Your Stroller

[scrapbookingmommy]

We leave for WDW in 10 days (HURRAY!) and we are taking our own stroller with us. Does anyone have any great suggestions for what you use to mark your stroller so you (and everyone else) knows it belongs to you?

Thanks.

 

[Cinderumbrella]

We had 2 of those detatchable cupholders on the back (bright white against a black stroller). Our stroller was easy to spot anywhere with those and we never had a problem.
Have fun!

 

[ryanally]

We mark ours with a luggage tag called Smart Tag that is what else? Lime green They come in other colors. We hang it from the handbar and it dangles down and I can usually spot it pretty fast in the sea of navy blue!

 

[kc10family]

I embroidered this for my DD. But you could make a t-shirt transfer and put in on what ever colored fabric you'd like. Then just tack it on by the corners with a few stitches.

 

[nancy drew]

i just left the gate-check tag on the handle. it was hot pink, so i never had a problem finding my stroller.

 

[baileygirlsmom]

I took a 99 cent blaze orange hunters vest from Wal-Mart (back where fishing/camping gear is) put our name in huge letters with a perm. marker and tied it to the strollers. It was easy to spot each time! It folds up real small to fit in your fanny pack or backpack too.

 

[Savsmommy]

We tied a balloon to ours. It helped when there were a hundred other strollers in the area, we just looked for the balloon. A lot of times the CM's rearrange all the strollers also, so the balloon made it easy to find ours right away. Then when we were walking around we just wrapped the balloon around the stroller handle so it wasn't hitting people. Just a suggestion that worked for us.

 

[sassymom]

A scarf or hankerchief may do the trick too. Pick one with a bright unusual color and tie it to the handle, should be easy to spot. OT I love the embroidered princess stroller are you taking orders? Wonderful job!

 

[maddhatir]

DH and I took our 4yr old niece in Dec......i went to Joanne fabrics and bought the "pack" of fabric sqaures.....they are about 5 in a pack of different patterns, i bought scooby doo (i KNOW we were in disney- but she likes scooby) they were all different scooby patterns (i think they had a few disney ones to choose from also) however, each morining before we went to the park- i would let her pick out which scarf to put on the storller for that day--
and then when we had to look for the stroller- she felt like a "big girl" becasue she would find it for us!

 

[chip91]

We used BRIGHT pink ribbon & tied a sizeable piece around the stroller handle & also had BRIGHT pink Mickey Heads from Home Depot, which we laminated, with our names & cell phone #'s on, never had a problem finding our stroller after a ride/attraction.

Have a great time!
Chip91

 

[Annette_VA]

I embroidered this for my DD. But you could make a t-shirt transfer and put in on what ever colored fabric you'd like. Then just tack it on by the corners with a few stitches.

Awesome idea!! (And, we have that same stroller )

We just used lime green bandanas tied to the handles

 

[Kahana-ri]

We went for Christmas and we decorated for the holidays. I put a bright red/silver garland on the push bar and dangled matching ornaments. Its was so easy to find! We are going in fall and I plan to do something very similar. Probably something orange with fall leaves?

 

[scrapbookingmommy]

Wow! So many fabulous ideas. Thank you! I am off today to see what I can find to decorate.

 

[NotUrsula]

i just left the gate-check tag on the handle. it was hot pink, so i never had a problem finding my stroller.

Which is amazing, as there are hot-pink gate-check tags on literally thousands of strollers in any WDW park on any given day. I would advise against relying on gate-check tags for identification. (Not only are they all over the place, they are really easy to remove.)

There are two issues to consider: a) finding it in a crowd, and b) reclaiming it if it somehow gets lost. Your best strategy is to cover both contingencies.

For loss recovery, I ordered a set of return-address labels that only have name and cell phone number on them, and we use them all the time to identify our family's things for travel, camp, school, etc. On strollers, I put them in a couple of spots on the frame and used some clear nail-polish to waterproof them.

For find-in-a-crowd identification, I always used metallic curling gift ribbon, because it is difficult to remove without a sharp tool, and it glints in the sun. I put a big fluff of it on one handle of my stroller, so that it would fall over the hand of anyone who pushed it. My theory was that with that there, it was unlikely that anyone would take it by mistake and not notice. (I like balloons for this purpose, too, but my balloon-obsessed children would never leave them alone, and were always crying to have it pulled down so that they could hold it, tangling the ribbon in the wheels, etc. -- it got too aggravating. Also, balloons are not allowed at AK.)

 

[princessj&e]

We were just there 2 weeks ago. We put blue and yellow (go Mountaineers!!)tape on the handles. They were easy to spot.
Enjoy your vacation!!

 

[Bunchkin]

No matter how I mark our stroller, I can still never find it!!
They are always moving those things around!!!!

 

[budbeerlady]

This year, even though no one had a stroller like ours, in a sea of strollers it was hard to find. We are buying a ballon once we get there and leaving it on all week! I only saw a couple that were doing this and when cms move strollers it can take a little looking to find yours. Now instead of looking through hundreds of strollers I am only looking at the few with ballons like we bought.

 

[crisi]

Remember that you won't find balloons all over the place - the aren't allowed in the AK.

We always rent, and even in a sea of identical rentals, have never had a problem finding the one with our nametag. I always mean to bring ribbon, never manage to accomplish it.

 

[mikymouse]

I tied metallic curling ribbions in three different colors (from old B'day presents) on our handles of both strollers. They were easy to spot. I had a bag of ballons to use, but they never made it out of the backpack.

 

[WeLubDeeDub]

We bought really wide satin ribbon at JoAnns last August in a hot color...happened to be lime green...a great coincidence, or should I say choice, since it is the Disboard color and hot glued some foam mickey heads to the end-punched with scrapbook punch. Tied it on the back of the stroller with enough knots that no one in their right mind would think about removing- and I paid the price when we got home. The ribbon weathered the weather and didn't itch or bother like to curling ribbon would. Our daughter loved looking for the stroller. The green stood out so well! There did seem to be a whole lot of Hot pink tags..